1971-1972 Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Las Vegas, Nevada at the invitation of The University of Nevada: Program Schedule

1971-1972 TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION Las Vegas, Nevada at the invitation of THE UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA PROGRAM SCHEDULE Friday, October 15 11:00Registration 1:45-3:15 Section Meetings English III: Teaching English V: American Studies Modem Languages IJA(I): French Italian to 1900 English Language & Linguistics 3:30-5:00 Section Meetings Dramatic Literature Comparative Literature Modern Languages IIB: German Western Americana Folklore Junior College English Symposium 7:00Banquet and Lobby Americana West Gold Room I Gold Room II Eldorado I Gold Room I Gold Room II Americana West Eldorado I Eldorado II Americana Room Saturday, October 1 6 7:45-9:00 Breakfast Business Meeting 9:00-10:30 Section Meetings Modern Languages I: Linguistics (First Session) English IA: Medieval and Renaissance Literature English IVA: American Literature to 1900 English II: Literature after 1800 10:45-12:15 Section Meetings Modern Languages IIA(2): French and Italian after 1900 Modern Languages HC: Slavic and East European English IB: Seventeenth- and EighteenthCentury Literature English IVB: American Literature after 1900 Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages 12:30-1:30 College English Association Luncheon Americana Room Eldorado I Eldorado II Americana West Gold Room I Board Room Conference Room Americana West Eldorado I Eldorado II Gold Room II RMMLA Bulletin 1:45-3:15 3:30-5:00 6:30 8:00 Italian Section Planning Committee Luncheon Section Meetings Modem Languages HD: Spanish and Portuguese Literary Ecology Symposium Ethnic Studies Symposium Genre: Theory and Practice Section Meetings Modem Languages I: Linguistics(Second Eldorado I Session ) Modem Languages III: TeachingEldorado II Classical and Medieval LiteratureGold Room I Film SymposiumAmericana West Cabaret Room Americana West Americana East Eldorado II Eldorado I English Department Chairman's Dinner Section Chairman's Dinner Poetry Reading Eldorado I Eldorado II Americana West SECTION MEETINGS Friday, October 15 1:45-3:15 p.m. English III: Teaching Americana West Chairman: Professor Anne Howard, University of Nevada, Reno Vice-Chairman: Jean Alexander, University of Calgary John Boni, Colorado State University, "Looking Before and After: The Survey in Reverse'' The usefulness of the much abused survey might be increased by teaching the involved material in reverse chronological order, stressing the position of each writer. Students would not then confront a a simple "and-then" organization but could understand a writer as cause and effect in relation to those who followed him and to his predecessors. Frances Hernandez, University of Texas at El Paso, "A Technique for Teaching Literature Through Grammar." The analysis of grammatical structures , in addition to the more usual investigations of vocabulary and imagery, can also be useful in teaching students to appreciate literary style, as illustrated by the study of two examples of passages from modern English novels. Geoffrey Allan Grimes, Texas Tech University, "The Adolescent and Poetry Interpretation." A formalistic approach to teaching literature fosters what Archibald MacLeish suggested should be an "experience" of literature. A formalistic approach denies a prescriptive approach which often hinders a student's personal discovery or "experience" of a work. Second, a formalistic ...